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In spite of its weak security, poor performance, and woeful standards compliance, a lot of people are still using Internet Explorer 6 as their Web browser of choice. A large part of this user base seems to be made up of corporate users. According to Stuart Strathdee, Chief Security...

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If there was any question as to Sebastian Thrun and Udacity’s resolve to re-imagine higher education in a more affordable, accessible virtual classroom — or their ability to actually make any real headway among the Ivory Towers of academia — we should probably just go ahead and put that to...

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Jeff Bussgang asks an interesting question on his blog. He suggests that the lack of NYC tech IPOs compared to Boston is a result of: The IPO culture hasn’t fully permeated NYC? There are only very few public technology companies based in NYC: I count AOL as the only one...

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With all the hand-wringing over “death to the click-through rate,” the poor performance of display ads, and challenges of transferring desktop dollars to mobile, I’d say the ad tech industry has its hands full. But there’s one creeping problem getting less attention, and it’s one that most players in...

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Nikon might be treading water in Q2 2013 (its fiscal year is time-shifted) with a slight gain to $203 million from Q1, but in the current imaging market climate, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Revenue fell $200 million to $3 billion for the period, which Nikon attributed to...

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It looks like former Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci's new position with Lenovo has landed him in a spot of legal trouble — Acer is reportedly suing Lanci for breaching his non-compete clause. Lanci left Acer in March of 2011 after several quarters of poor performance and a disagreement with...

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HTC has sold "around five million" of its flagship smartphone, the One, since launch. The figure will abate fears that HTC is dead in the water (the company is struggling internally) but does confirm what we all suspected: HTC isn't able to keep up with Samsung in sales. The...

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Casey Johnston The 7-inch Android tablet is one of the scrappiest models in the gadget landscape. From one manufacturer to the next, one year to the next, these tablets have failed to find an audience or win any vocal supporters. Yet sales for the 10-inch iPad continue to vault...

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In the UK, the summer of 2012 is already being looked back on as the British summer of sport. It kicked off with a traditionally poor performance by the English football team in the Euros, followed by a much more successful Olympics and Paralympics held on home soil. All three...

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This isn’t how things were supposed to unfold with Facebook’s IPO. The social network’s public offering was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime moonshot, triggering a frenzy of interest in other social-web companies who would then ride that wave of demand to equally successful IPOs. At least, that’s what plenty of...

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Plus, EA Partners to close, Ambient Studios shuts down and the story of Ridiculous FishingA selection of links, hand-picked by the Guardian games writers.PlayStation DUALSHOCK4 Controller | YouTubePlayStation developers explain some of the key elements of the new Dualshock controller.I like the idea of the speaker on the controller handling...

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Dolby Digital Plus for Tablets is a reasonably successful software fix for a pervasive hardware problem—namely, the low-rent speakers in most tablets. Dolby On most smartphones and tablets, speakers are an afterthought at best. While processor speed and core counts, graphical capability, amount of RAM, and even pixel density...

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Good morning! Here's the news: Facebook speculators are blaming everyone but themselves for the stock's poor performance so far. Henry Blodget argues that the stock was overvalued to begin with and the stock should be priced in the $16-$24 range. Business Insider's Owen Thomas looks at how Facebook's stock performance...

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Jobs considers the impact his ouster from Apple had on his feelings in 1985. "I hired the wrong guy. [John Sculley] destroyed everything I spent 10 years working for." In 1995, Steve Jobs gave a rare interview to Robert Cringely for a PBS special called Triumph of the Nerds to...

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Restaurant City will be taken offline from both Facebook and the App Store on June 29, according to a Wall Photo added to the game’s album today. Players are being encouraged to move to The Sims Social both with a virtual currency bonus and the ability to convert existing Restaurant...

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JK Shin, the Samsung Mobile Communications president who just received a promotion to co-CEO of Samsung Electronics, had some harsh words for Microsoft tonight as his company launched the Galaxy S4. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Shin downplayed a question about Samsung's relationship with Microsoft, instead...

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Facebook’s log-out page will soon be transformed into premium digital billboard space ripe for messages from advertisers. The ads, should history repeat itself, will flop with Facebook members, but buyers will snatch them up anyway. “This is a fairly traditional play in the ad world,” Mindjet CMO Jascha Kaykas-Wolff...

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Today, Facebook’s mobile apps look like its website shrunk down. Soon, that could change. I’ve seen first-hand the employees-only iOS app build of an evolved form of Facebook’s mobile news feed which ditches the empty blue and white chrome for full-screen photo tiles and overlaid text. Reminiscent of the Google+...

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BlackBerry will face jaded customers on Friday with the U.S. launch of its latest smartphone, a last-ditch effort to show that after years of product delays and poor performance, the company is ready to compete. Read full article >>...

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China’s Ministry of Railways (MOR) recently revamped its 12306.cn website for buying train tickets, but the project has widely been regarded as a colossal failure. That failure didn’t come cheap, either, as the government is said to have spent RMB 330 million ($52 million) developing the website. The 12306 website...

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South Korean electronics manufacturer LG reported earnings for the most recently ended quarter today, revealing a 10 percent sales drop that spurred a subsequent decline in its share price. According to The Financial Times, LG's mobile division suffered the most in the quarter, continuing the poor performance that has characterized...

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While most of us know the results of yesterday's Big Game, the results of the online ad campaigns from the dozens of companies spending multiple millions are less clear. Fortunately, monitoring firm Yottaa is here to lead the way and let us know who scored and who missed serving up...

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Zynga‘s stock price is rising today and the assessments of its third-quarter earnings performance are coming in from analysts. The analysts are encouraged by positive signs, but they remain worried about Zynga’s critical transition from desktop gaming to mobile. In the analyst call yesterday, Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus...

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“I think LTE, high-definition and quad-core will be the key words this year. With fine-tuned technology and strategies, LG will recover our once-lost brand awareness,’’ That’s the plan for 2012, according to Park Jong-seok, head of LG’s handset division, in a comment to The Korea Times. Park said the company...

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While there are signs HTC's fortunes might turn a corner through the launch of the One, few would doubt that its finances could use some streamlining. The company has just outlined one of the ways it will be pinching pennies: it's closing its Watch movie stores in Denmark, Italy,...

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HTC has been struggling to maintain its status in the Android sphere, and although it’s made some strides with positive reviews surrounding the recent launch of the HTC One handset, it was 2011's Thunderbolt handset that was supposed to be a boon for the Taiwan-based company. The Thunderbolt was...

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The economy may be starting to look up, but that doesn't mean the suffering is over. Toshiba is just the latest company to announce that it had a rough quarter to close out the calendar year 2011. The quarter ending December 31st of 2011, saw the company pull in...